Faithless Electors Who Break Their Promise Rightly Can Be Punished

The Daily Signal ^ | June 27, 2019 | Hans von Spakovsky, and Greg Walsh

[fhayek]

I was being sarcastic. Don't you remember that ubiquitous tagline at the end of each Scooby Doo episode? Of course I believe in the Constitution. It's just here was one place where maybe depending on ‘electors’ who maybe just get a little too full of themselves should be curtailed. You win New York, you get 29 votes. No drama, no self-righteous angst. No possiblity of corruption.

[Don W]

Never ever watched Scooby Doo. I tried, but it just didn’t interest me.

Admittedly, my sarcasm detector isn’t all that accurate anymore.

[Yosemitest]

Are you forgetting “Faithless Electors” and the laws of their own states ?

"... There are laws to punish faithless electors in 24 states. ..."

From What You Need to Know About The Election of President and Vice President :

"... The election of the President and the Vice President is established in Article 2 of the Constitution.
The procedure is further honed by a number of Federal and State laws concerning the operation of the election, especially in terms of the means of casting ballots and how those ballots are counted. ..."